In this video Peter Bahaa shows how to use the SetSource method to load a video in a media element. He compares this method with automatically loading a video into a media element.View VideoFormat: wmvDuration: 623
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View Comments In this video Tim Heuer demonstrates how to load Silverlight applications and assemblies asynchronously.View VideoFormat: wmvDuration: 1272
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In Silverlight Beta 1 you could only use sockets to connect to the same host the Silverlight application was served up from. In Beta 2 a change was made to allow you to connect to any server. However, before the Silverlight application can connect to…( read more )…(read more)
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In Silverlight Beta 1 you could only use sockets to connect to the same host the Silverlight application was served up from. In Beta 2 a change was made to allow you to connect to any server. However, before the Silverlight application can connect to the server it must first successfully connect to a policy server on that machine in order to proceed with the connection. Below I will take you through every step you need to create and run your own policy server. To start, create a new C# console application…(read more)
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The Publish and Subscribe pattern (which uses the Observer Pattern in .NET - more info here ) is one of those patterns we use all the time while thinking nothing of it. In .NET, we get the concrete implementation via events and delegates. By abstracting…( read more )…(read more)
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Over the past few months Joel and I have been back-and-forthing modifications to his original great idea and goal “build a re-sizable video player using no custom user controls, but instead leveraging controls styles and templates.” Joel started in Silverlight Read More……(read more)
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The Silverlight Streaming service has been upgraded to support Silverlight 2 beta 2 applications. As a note to customers who were previously hosting Beta 1 applications for test purposes, as beta 1 is no longer a supported test platform for SLS. Authors…( read more )…(read more)
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When I teach Silverlight 2, I stress an important lesson that I thought that we (as developers) had learned the importance of linkability of the web. Early usage of Flash was the first time I noticed this. A number of those sites would create nested functionality…( read more )…(read more)
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Busy Day in SL2B2-Land: Chris Cavanagh with Soft-Body Physics, Emil Stoychev on Asynchronous SL, Rich Griffin on Skinning Controls, James Bacon on SL restrictions for communication, Avi Pilosof on SL Particle Physics, Jeff Paries with a SL2B2 Etch-a-Sketch…( read more )…(read more)
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I'm sure loads have people have seen this already. I have a silverlight usercontrol (mysilverlightpage.xaml), which contains a silverlight usercontrol (mylefthandnav.xaml). If both usercontrols use a global style (defined in my app.xaml), the…( read more )…(read more)
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